- Why are existential questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence, vital in these times of readjustment of powers and values?
A response from Julia Nevarez at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden: Because the best we can offer after contributing to so much deterioration is to build communities of understanding, tolerance, and strength in love.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Hyunji Kim at MIT: When you face uncertainty, making some good food is a great way to take a step back and destress to motivate yourself again!
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from an audience member at MIT: I tend to think of a lot of the possible situations/outcomes. Then at a certain point I’ll just say whatever happens happens.
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A Response by Ashish Kalakuntla at MIT: I tend to uncontrollably shiver and get extremely nervous, especially if it is in a public scenario. However, if it is something I wish to try, I will experience a surge of adrenaline that will spur me to action.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response by Zoren Berlanga at MIT: By finding ways to eliminate the uncertainty and if I can’t, accepting that I can’t control the uncertainty and I can only control how I respond to it
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Elise Harvey at MIT: I try to forget it’s there entirely.
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from Kylie Gallagher at MIT: My body is usually in shock for a brief period of time. While I try to process the unknown. It usually doesn’t know how to respond until it is understood.
- How can we reconcile existential tensions between the flow and currents of the animate life of environments in contrast to the human-centered occupation of the world?
A response from an audience member at MIT: We need to increase awareness of nature and let people explore outdoors. We also need to put policies in place so that we don’t destroy our planet.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Jenzel Freeman at MIT: In times of uncertainty, I almost certainly will feel an initial rush of nerves traverse through my body followed by feelings of frustration at the unknown. However, once that innate reaction fades, I begin to wonder and brainstorm potential outcomes or possibilities that may eventually replace the uncertain. Depending on what these scenarios may be, I either begin feeling at ease or my …
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from Julia Pockat at MIT: I tend to get tense and anxious
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Kylie Gallagher at MIT: I cope with uncertainty by not thinking about what could happen or what is uncertain and focusing on things that I do know are certain.
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from Julia Balla at MIT: I don’t really enjoy the unknown and I usually prefer to stay in my comfort zone. For this reason, my body becomes tense and stiff. I even forget to breathe when I am too focused on the unknown situation, which only makes me more tense.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Abilash Prabhakaran at MIT: I like to take take a big breath or take some rest. I like to find a big lounge and lie around as well.
- Why are existential questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence, vital in these times of readjustment of powers and values?
A response from Moctar at MIT: Being able to enter into another world and understand/perceive this current world differently is important in being able to recognize the situation in the present and one’s place.
- Why are existential questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence, vital in these times of readjustment of powers and values?
A response from Laura Restrepo at MIT: Because we realize that there is not such a thing as an individual destiny. The crisis of the world is not only a crisis of scarcity of resources, excess consumption, or inequality but a rupture that derives from a fragmented vision of the world, a civilization that has grown too big with its head disconnected from the body. The crisis of the earth …
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Olivia Valle at MIT: Pray that I accept the things I cannot change
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from an audience member at MIT: I do not cope with uncertainty well. I overthink and think of all possible outcomes when I encounter uncertainty. Uncertainty definitely intimidates me.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Dechen Rota at MIT: I tend to freak out and demand an answer or a solution. Which i recognize is not healthy nor is it effective. It’s difficult to deal with especially because it makes you feel out of control and that u have no control of ur life
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Angela Su at MIT: I cope with uncertainty by realizing I am not alone and I have people supporting me.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from an audience member: Occasionally, in cases where I am not certain of an outcome to a situation I find myself in, I find it useful to think about the best case of outcome I expect and how life could be with that expectation being a reality. I’m summary, the best way I find to cope with uncertainty is by simply being optimistic when things go not as …
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from an audience member at MIT: When I encounter the unknown the first thing I notice about my reaction is my face. My eyes automatically squint a bit and I usually tilt my head up a bit. If the unknown seems threatening, I’ll feel a tightening in my chest and my arms will feel slightly lighter as I wait and continue to study the situation.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Ben Dwyer at MIT: When faced with uncertainty, I often try to control little aspects of the situation in order to facilitate a false sense of certainty. As humans, uncertainty produces an uncomfortable feeling that we go out of our ways to avoid. That being said, releasing the reins and embracing the uncertainty often enables a sense of thrill and excitement that wouldn’t have been experienced otherwise.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Matthew Cho at MIT: In general I am not so good with this. I usually try to distract myself or think through things, but this is sometimes counterproductive
- What are your thoughts about environmental ethics?
A response from Cole Kingston at MIT: I think that environmental ethics are very important to the earth’s longevity. It seems like it’s hard for people to understand the importance of environmental ethics because the effects aren’t always short term.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Andy Shin at MIT: When things are uncertain, I tend to focus on what I can control and try to do my best in that. Then I just have to have faith that things will be okay and trust the process.
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from Lindsey Bjornstad at MIT: Immediately panic, but then try to calm myself down. If it’s something completely unknown and bad, I get the urge to curl up in a ball.Sometimes, though, if it’s the unknown that isn’t necessarily bad, I am quiet until I can know what is going on, or at least get a better sense of it to respond to it.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A Response from Natalie Northrup at MIT: Not particularly well, but there are a few strategies I use. Most often, I let myself mentally envision what my life could look like under a bunch of the possible outcomes – which most often allows me to see that I can really be okay even if uncertain events throw me somewhere unexpected. I also strictly block free time into my week, so …
- What are your thoughts about environmental ethics?
A response from Karen Chen at MIT: I think that environment ethics are pretty hard to define because each “preventative measure” we might be able to take will likely trickle down to lower income/less privileged populations and further cement their lesser power in society.
- What are your thoughts about environmental ethics?
A response from David Fang at MIT: Environmental ethics is becoming more and more important as we try to reconcile our impacts on nature with improving our own lives through technology.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response by Allen Zhang at MIT: I cope with uncertainty by accepting that it is uncertain and focusing on things that I can control
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from Sebastian Viasus at MIT: When I encounter the unknown my body typically reacts with either fear or excitement. The determining factor for the response is my perspective. For me, perspective is typically a result of how I’ve been feeling overall for the past few days or so. If I have been feeling lost or unstable in life, an unknown moment is likely to feel scary, even if …
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Cristina at Socrates Sculpture Park: Me personally? I don’t.My mind circles a thousand thousand drainsuntil I’m dizzy.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Mariuxi Tapia in Queens: I try to plan. I have anxiety and whatever I can control so that I’m ready as possible with the unexpected I do. I also try to have moments of distraction. And when the anxiety of it all gets bad- I cry and then feel better after.
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from an audience member at Socrates Sculpture Park: everything intensifies
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from an audience member at Socrates Sculpture park: Run through socrates park
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from Dara Perlman in Hurleyville: My body takes the wheel. I follow it’s responses by listening carefully to it. I focus solely on it’s response.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from an audience member at Socrates Sculpture Park: I breathe to see
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from an audience member:I think of all the possible outcomes in that moment and then I stop and disregard the thoughts as I move onward.
- Why are existential questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence, vital in these times of readjustment of powers and values?
A response form Natasha Lan: To practice allyship. Privilege and oppression cannot exist without the other but those of us who are subjugated must find and use our voices to interrogate the systems that are historically and currently built to keep power and true freedom in the hands of few.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Marlon Fuentes at Socrates Sculpture Park: Do the best you can. Read Marcus Aurelius Meditations. Practice stoicism.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Dara Perlman in Hurleyville: I don’t. I simply exist and wade in it. It will pass, wether on my own account through random discovery or the universe will take care of it. I hope. It is scary but it won’t kill me.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Jonathan Charles Fox at Hurleyville: Nervously.
- How can we reconcile existential tensions between the flow and currents of the animate life of environments in contrast to the human-centered occupation of the world?
A Response from Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer in Hurleyville: By embracing the post human tenant that humans are only one element of the cosmos not the center or controlling fact. Secondly to quoteOctavia Butler .. god is change..
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from an audience member in Hurleyville: Magic
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from Randi Berry:My whole body tenses up. I close myself off, wrap my arms around myself. I get butterflies in my stomach – excitement, fear, anticipation.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Polina Porras: I like certain kinds of uncertainties, I feel invigorated and freer.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Melannie Vasquez:I try to turn to friends. See if others can relate. That way, I don’t feel so alone. That way, things don’t seem so scary or impossible.
- How can we reconcile existential tensions between the flow and currents of the animate life of environments in contrast to the human-centered occupation of the world?
A response from Evadora: When it comes time for me to bring my own child to this world, the most important word I’ll teach them is ‘sonder.’ I find embracing yet letting go as my own most effective way of reconciling my internal reactions with the world at large. Knowing the world is so much bigger than my own thoughts is scary, yet actually quite beautiful and calming when you …
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Aleksandra Ognjanovic: Strongly and stubbornly believing in hope.
- How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Alessandra Castaldo: Surrender to the fact the universe has my back
- What happens to your body when you encounter the unknown?
A response from Nicole Gong: During March and April this year when Covid hit hard i had trouble falling asleep, so I would sleep until afternoon and stay up until 7 in the morning and sometimes still can’t fall asleep. I would work during the night because the darkness of the night makes me feel peaceful, or it could be my biological clock telling me there’s danger in a primal …
A response from Julia Nevarez at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden: Because the best we can offer after contributing to so much deterioration is to build communities of understanding, tolerance, and strength in love.
A response from Hyunji Kim at MIT: When you face uncertainty, making some good food is a great way to take a step back and destress to motivate yourself again!
A response from an audience member at MIT: I tend to think of a lot of the possible situations/outcomes. Then at a certain point I’ll just say whatever happens happens.
A Response by Ashish Kalakuntla at MIT: I tend to uncontrollably shiver and get extremely nervous, especially if it is in a public scenario. However, if it is something I wish to try, I will experience a surge of adrenaline that will spur me to action.
A response by Zoren Berlanga at MIT: By finding ways to eliminate the uncertainty and if I can’t, accepting that I can’t control the uncertainty and I can only control how I respond to it
A response from Elise Harvey at MIT: I try to forget it’s there entirely.
A response from Kylie Gallagher at MIT: My body is usually in shock for a brief period of time. While I try to process the unknown. It usually doesn’t know how to respond until it is understood.
A response from an audience member at MIT: We need to increase awareness of nature and let people explore outdoors. We also need to put policies in place so that we don’t destroy our planet.
A response from Julia Pockat at MIT: I tend to get tense and anxious
A response from Kylie Gallagher at MIT: I cope with uncertainty by not thinking about what could happen or what is uncertain and focusing on things that I do know are certain.
A response from Abilash Prabhakaran at MIT: I like to take take a big breath or take some rest. I like to find a big lounge and lie around as well.
A response from Laura Restrepo at MIT: Because we realize that there is not such a thing as an individual destiny. The crisis of the world is not only a crisis of scarcity of resources, excess consumption, or inequality but a rupture that derives from a fragmented vision of the world, a civilization that has grown too big with its head disconnected from the body. The crisis of the earth …
A response from an audience member: Occasionally, in cases where I am not certain of an outcome to a situation I find myself in, I find it useful to think about the best case of outcome I expect and how life could be with that expectation being a reality. I’m summary, the best way I find to cope with uncertainty is by simply being optimistic when things go not as …
A response from Ben Dwyer at MIT: When faced with uncertainty, I often try to control little aspects of the situation in order to facilitate a false sense of certainty. As humans, uncertainty produces an uncomfortable feeling that we go out of our ways to avoid. That being said, releasing the reins and embracing the uncertainty often enables a sense of thrill and excitement that wouldn’t have been experienced otherwise.
A response from Polina Porras: I like certain kinds of uncertainties, I feel invigorated and freer.
A response from Evadora: When it comes time for me to bring my own child to this world, the most important word I’ll teach them is ‘sonder.’ I find embracing yet letting go as my own most effective way of reconciling my internal reactions with the world at large. Knowing the world is so much bigger than my own thoughts is scary, yet actually quite beautiful and calming when you …